Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Turkey is considering a coalition with Russia and Iran against terrorists in Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will soon visit Tehran to discuss the issue. The visit is also expected to normalize ties between Turkey and Iran, the two powers seeking dominance in the region. […]

US Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein announced in a media release Tuesday that Boeing B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers have completed airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan for the first time in ten years. He stated, “We got the B-52 back in the […]

Reginald Savage had an uneasy feeling when he last contacted his American son fighting alongside Kurdish forces against the Islamic State in Syria. “I then knew that I wasn’t going to see him again,” the father said of his last email exchange in late July […]

The Egyptian Radio and Television Union has suspended eight female TV anchors for one month because apparently, they’re just too overweight to do their jobs. The New York Times reports that the decree came from the newly-appointed head of the ERTU, Safaa Hegazy, a former […]

While the American President’s time is running out, Western pundits and analysts are assessing the results of Obama’s foreign policy. Turning the spotlight on his strategic “errors,” they blame Barack Obama for Russia’s recent geopolitical achievement. With President Barack Obama’s term nearing its end, media […]

The Israeli authorities have ordered a Palestinian school east of Jerusalem to be demolished as they say it was built without permission, despite coming under pressure from the EU and the UN for Israel to stop destroying Palestinian buildings. The primary school is located in […]

GENEVA: Frustrated and unhappy, the U.N. envoy for Syria abruptly cut short a Thursday meeting of its humanitarian task force because aid convoys to besieged cities and towns have been impeded this month amid a surge in fighting in the country’s 5-1/2-year civil war. Staffan […]

Russia said on Thursday it would support a 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo, a move the U.N. Syria envoy said would allow aid to reach besieged areas soon, as long as all sides respect the temporary truce. As pictures of a dazed child pulled from the […]

BATON ROUGE — Five days into this disaster, adrenaline is giving way to exhaustion and — for many of those who left their homes amid rising water — a constant, churning anxiety about the future. Thousands are still holed up in shelters or at friends’ […]